As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

If you do darshan (worship) of the one who has both stillness in his eyes and chit prasannta (blissful state of chit)

Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.

You can't revise a blank page.

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.